| Everybody needs to remember that, since the Billboard charts 'started,' MOST of the hit songs quickly faded into obscurity and aren't remember today. Anyone remember 'Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White'? It was No. 1 for ten weeks in 1955. And don't forget the popularity of Bubblegum Pop in the '60s- pop music contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers, often using unknown singers... |